Though we may have a sense of indestructibility about us, there are a vast amount of possible ways we could be wiped out, just how resilient are we as a species ? Nick Longrich - a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontolog at the University of Bath, England - delves into the possible fate of our species and our resilience to extinction. Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct. Some left descendants. Most - plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus - didn't. That's also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Humans are inevitably heading for extinction. The question isn't whether we go extinct, but when. Headlines often suggest this extinction is imminent. The threat of earth-grazing asteroids is a media favourite. Mars is regularly mooted as a bolt hole. And there is the